I am not a fan of these NRA people
It’s hard to believe that the N.R.A. needed to go dark for a week after the Newtown shootings to cook up such a chuckleheaded arms race. And LaPierre made a worse case against himself than the media ever could. It’s shocking that the N.R.A. can’t even fake it better.
It didn’t try to mask its obdurate stance by putting forth a less harsh official — a woman who’s a mother and a hunter, for instance. Maybe it could have prompted a serious discussion about armed guards at schools if it had a less crazed presentation and less of an absolute vision that “guns are cool,” as David Keene, its president, says.
The 63-year-old LaPierre and the 67-year-old Keene, a cantankerous former Bob Dole adviser whose son went to prison for shooting at another driver in a road-rage fit, seemed as out-of-touch as Mitt Romney’s campaign and the rest of the white, macho Republican Party.
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Indeed. No doubt you’d give Palin an easy ride compared to La Pierre.
CorporatePiggy on December 23, 2012 at 7:43 PM
That’s okay, neither am I.
Of course, I care much less for Mz. Dowd than I do the NRA.
cozmo on December 23, 2012 at 7:44 PM
The lame-stream media were practically frothing at the mouth through the entire NRA press conference; they were further outraged that they wouldn’t take questions (good call on the NRA’s part).
This is just one of many reactions; and not the brightest by far considering the source.
Can we deport her too?
mad scientist on December 23, 2012 at 7:45 PM
Excellent observation!
Drained Brain on December 23, 2012 at 7:46 PM
Ms. Dowd, what do you mean “these people”?
Sounds racist to me.
Nethicus on December 23, 2012 at 7:46 PM
Everything is about race with these people.
The Notorious G.O.P on December 23, 2012 at 7:46 PM
Perhaps you have identified SP’s next gig. And, IMHO, it would be a good one…
JohnGalt23 on December 23, 2012 at 7:54 PM
We NRA people generally aren’t a fan of you, Maureen Dowd. Whoever you are.
dczombie on December 23, 2012 at 7:54 PM
I joined the NRA AND the JPFO this morning.
annoyinglittletwerp on December 23, 2012 at 7:56 PM
Ahh, i see she couldn’t help herself and went after white people, but everyone is else are the real racists dont’cha know, must be terrible for her to hate the color of own skin so much, poor thing.
clearbluesky on December 23, 2012 at 7:57 PM
Maybe the NRA took the week off to properly honor the lost, instead of dragging the corpses of children onto every available stage as props like you leftist trash did within 3 hours of the shooting.
What’s the NRA’s stance on Fast and Furious, you could score one hell of an interview with that question, Dowd you bitter old spinster hag boozer.
Bishop on December 23, 2012 at 7:57 PM
Leave it to an annoying twerp to skip the best one.
cozmo on December 23, 2012 at 8:00 PM
Indeed they were. Loved every minute of it. LaPierre rocks.
Lololol.
petefrt on December 23, 2012 at 8:01 PM
lol
toliver on December 23, 2012 at 8:02 PM
Leave it to an annoying twerp to skip the best one.
cozmo on December 23, 2012 at 8:00 PM
Oooo. Gotta join that too!
annoyinglittletwerp on December 23, 2012 at 8:03 PM
I hope “chucklehead” isn’t the new word dujour.
It’s so 50′s
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Mimzey on December 23, 2012 at 8:08 PM
Always is when you are a racist. Projection, the leftist mental disease.
IrishEyes on December 23, 2012 at 8:15 PM
The feelings are mutual, stupid.
Thomas More on December 23, 2012 at 8:18 PM
It’s been supposedly traced back to 1725-35.
I checked simply because I first heard the word used (in the 1950s) by my late grandmother, who was born in the 1880s.
It’s a marvelous word and I’d hate to see it overused.
Drained Brain on December 23, 2012 at 8:18 PM
That old battle ax needs to take a look at the demographics of a CHL class sometime. In my class there were about 4 Orientals and almost every person in there was a professional. Not some Larry the Cable guy type that they make gun owners out to be. And most places have women only classes that usually have waiting lists.
TxAnn56 on December 23, 2012 at 8:24 PM
That and pen1s envy.
CurtZHP on December 23, 2012 at 8:25 PM
Out of touch with what exactly? He lost be three miserable % for gods sake. So almost half the country voted for the guy. How can that be “out of touch”? With what or who?
Valkyriepundit on December 23, 2012 at 9:12 PM
Yum!
petefrt on December 23, 2012 at 9:18 PM
Er, numerous public death threats just might have had a role in that MoDo-DoDo.
F-
Del Dolemonte on December 23, 2012 at 9:24 PM
Was that a thinly veiled Power Puff Girls reference?
CurtZHP on December 23, 2012 at 9:30 PM
Gun free zones are smart in a country with nearly 300 million guns? Lady you’re not too bright.
CW on December 23, 2012 at 9:32 PM
..A.L.T. — started that way for me many years ago when that slavering c*nt, Rosie [cheeks] O’Donnell fulminated all over Tom Selleck on the subject of guns.
I pasted my NRA card in the window of my office and my bud, Steve, told me he’d show me how to put it to good use. After a visit to a pistol range, a Ruger 22/45, small bore target proficiency, a couple of M-1s, and more of same (all of which were strangely lost in a boating accident last year), I have never looked back. The card ain’t gonna get it for you if it does not come with responsible gun ownership and proficiency.
Hot tip of the day: LEARN TO RELOAD AS WELL!
The War Planner on December 23, 2012 at 9:57 PM
Go back to pickling your liver, you drunk old slag
TexasJew on December 23, 2012 at 9:58 PM
I did not know that. Thank you for the bit of info!
Mimzey on December 23, 2012 at 10:12 PM
Well, I’m not a fan of Maureen Dowd or the New York Times (aka Obama Propaganda News.)
BUT I am a fan of my fellow NRA members.
ProfShadow on December 23, 2012 at 10:14 PM
More of the tired old arguments from the gun control idiots. Hello, we don’t need to protect our schools against guns, we must protect them against murderers!! Guns can’t do anything by themselves, they are only tools for protection or murder depending on who’s hands they are in. Mr LaPierre never said that we need to protect our schools against guns because saying so would be pure idiocy.
Dollayo on December 23, 2012 at 11:05 PM
Meaux Deaux’s Meaux Jeaux has caused me to see the light!
I’m taking an ox/acetylene torch to all my semi automatic military style assault weapons of mass destruction machine gun war rifles tomorrow.
Hallelujah, I am saved!
soundingboard on December 23, 2012 at 11:17 PM
So empty it makes a constant sucking sound.
Axe on December 24, 2012 at 12:04 AM
When no one is afforded the protection of private armed bodyguards, when off-duty and retired police officers are disarmed and when politicians no longer receive police bodyguards then you can talk about how the NRA’s notion is stupid.
Until then, you raddled old hag, you are just peeing upwind.
iconoclast on December 24, 2012 at 12:07 AM
They got CC a long time ago.
davidk on December 24, 2012 at 12:19 AM
The NRA has way more decency than Obama, Dowd, and all the leftist vultures who feed on carrion.
Schadenfreude on December 24, 2012 at 12:29 AM
Poor Mo. Just another in a long list that has yet to learn the riddle of steel.
Boogeyman on December 24, 2012 at 12:31 AM
NRA doesn’t like you, I don’t like you, many others don’t like you, your own Mother detests you. And you’re ugly, not just on the outside either. Savvy?
Bmore on December 24, 2012 at 1:06 AM
As a woman who owns a gun, I am not a fan of being called macho by some radical leftist drunk. Oh, and I’m also tired of being called a right wing extremist every time a democrat doesn’t agree with me. I will henceforth refer to every democrat as a radical leftist.
Night Owl on December 24, 2012 at 5:20 AM
The twerp rocks.
Ummm… and also, beware the twerp!
petefrt on December 24, 2012 at 9:10 AM